Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001)

Re:Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001) by hulitu on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:06AM (#34147267)

> Yes, systems should be patched and all that. But really, anything not forcing updates should be able to do a year.

You should try Windows. After some days it becomes confused, some things (especially USB stuff) will not be recognized, programs will not load correctly etc. It is an old bug ( i've seen it also in Win 7) and nobody at Microsoft seems to care about it. Of course, a reboot fixes everything.

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Re:Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001) by krylon on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @08:17AM (#34148325)

At work, I only rebooted my laptop for updates, otherwise I just let it sleep.

On the server, especially when running in a VM, Windows can achieve impressive uptime, I've seen one NT 4.0 server with over 5 years without a reboot.

These days, the question is if you want to keep a server up for that long just because you can. When I worked as a Windows admin, I usually rebooted the servers after installing updates.

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Re:Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001) by nucleardog on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:22AM (#34148860)

I reboot my Win10 machine when there's a power outage long enough to run the UPS down. So probably about once a year.

I haven't had the experience you're describing since everything moved over to NT. I.e., Win95/98 did that for me, NT4, Win2000, XP, etc have never exhibited that behaviour for me.

I think this take, as a generalization, is a couple decades out of date.

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